# Ronald Searle - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:16:44.796Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 670
- Lots with prices: 545
- First auction date: 1997-04-08
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-16
- Median realised price: $1,250
- Price range: $10 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Ronald Searle shows very deep auction liquidity with 615 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-14.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $478 and $2,640.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 40.8% (205 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.3% (293 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 23
- Recent 12 months median: $375
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 87.5%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-14
- Days since latest sale: 66
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 358 lots
- Bonhams: 68 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 16 lots
- Locati LLC: 12 lots
- Gorringes: 10 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 9 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 9 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 9 lots
- Sotheby's: 9 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 7 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-01-21 | RONALD SEARLE \(BRITISH 1920 \- 2011\) A LATE 20TH CENTURY PEN AND INK MONOCHROME WATERCOLOUR | Hutchinson Scott Limited | £2,900 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ronald-searle-british-1920-2011-a-late-20th-century-pen-and-ink-monochrome-watercolour-682-c-9bac4ab199
2. 2025-12-14 | RONALD SEARLE \(ENGLISH, 1920 \- 2011\) | James Cox Gallery | $225
3. 2025-12-10 | Ronald Searle \(1920\-2011\) Study of a Lady in Purple watercolour and ink signed lower left 30cm x 23cm. Literature: Illustrated on page 37 of Ronald Searle 'Slightly Foxed, but still desirable', 1989. | Mallams | £15,000
4. 2025-12-10 | Ronald Searle \(1920\-2011\) A Bigger Slash \- Hommage a David Hockney, 1984 lithograph, numbered 139/150 signed and dated in pencil lower right 65cm x 49cm. Literature: Illustrated in Russell Davies 'Ronald Searle A Biography' 1990. | Mallams | N/A
5. 2025-12-03 | Ronald Searle "Snail & Rainbow" Lithograph | Market Auctions | $375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ronald-searle-snail-rainbow-lithograph-83-c-ea98a1a291
6. 2025-09-19 | Ronald Searle \(EN 1920\-2011\) Sporting Print | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $100
7. 2025-09-04 | Ronald Searle \(1920\-2011\), Avoriaz: Le Ski | Forum Auctions \- UK | £500
8. 2025-07-09 | Ronald Searle \(1920\-2011\) 'Merry Monarch', signed, pen and ink, 24.5 x 18cm This work depicts Anthony Quayle playing King Henry VIII, and Henry Andrews as Cardinal Wolsey, for the production of Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII' by the RSC in 1949.... | Mallams | £1,100
9. 2025-06-08 | RONALD SEARLE \(ENGLISH, 1920 \- 2011\) | James Cox Gallery | $900
10. 2025-04-13 | Ronald Searle \(b. 1920\-2011\), Lithograph | Locati LLC | $100
11. 2025-03-26 | Ronald Searle \(British, 1920\-2011\) For the Toothache \(Executed in circa 1968\) | Bonhams | £3,500
12. 2025-03-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920 \- 2011\) Homage to Toulouse\-Lautrec, Two Works | Locati LLC | $100
13. 2025-03-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920 \- 2011\) Homage a Toulouse Lautrec | Locati LLC | $80
14. 2025-02-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920 \- 2011\) Homage to Toulouse\-Lautrec, Two Works | Locati LLC | N/A
15. 2025-02-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920 \- 2011\) Hommage a Toulouse Lautrec | Locati LLC | N/A
16. 2025-02-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920\-2011\) It's an Ill Wind | Locati LLC | $100
17. 2025-02-16 | Ronald Searle \(1920 \- 2011\) Back to Square One | Locati LLC | $200
18. 2025-02-12 | RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE \(New York/England/France, 1920\-2011\), “Americans Abroad”, 1959., Sepia ink and watercolor on paper, 19” x 14.5”. Framed 26” x 21”. | Sandwich Auction House | $6,000
19. 2025-01-03 | Ronald Searle signed Fall of Singapore cover. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate | Chaucer Auctions | £10
20. 2024-12-11 | Ronald Searle, Pair of Original Works | Caza Sikes | $1,536
21. 2024-11-27 | Ronald Searle \(British, 1920\-2011\) Inefficient Cat Captured by an Astute Goldfish | Bonhams | £3,800
22. 2024-11-12 | RONALD SEARLE \(ENGLISH 1920\-2011\) ILLUSTRATION | Westport Auction | $90
23. 2024-10-24 | Ronald Searle \(British 1920\-2011\), View of a house | Ewbank's | £750
24. 2024-10-20 | Ronald Searle \(British 1920\-2011\) Lithograph | Locati LLC | N/A

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